🖍️SSAT® Elementary

Everything the math section can ask an eight or nine year old — counting, cutting, tiling, weighing, graphing and spinning, all of it drawn.

Adding and Subtracting with Regrouping · Multiplication as Rows and Columns · Division: Sharing Out, Grouping Up, and Undoing · Fact Families and Missing Numbers · +28 more

Half the verbal section is one word and five near misses. Almost the same is the whole game — plus word parts and the three traps that decide it.

What a Synonym Question Really Asks · Thinking of Your Own Word First · Choosing Between Two Words That Both Almost Fit · Prefixes That Flip a Word · +6 more

A format no other test hands an eight year old. The answer copies the LINK between the first two words, never the subject — and the bridge sentence finds it.

What an Analogy Question Really Asks · The Bridge Sentence · Making the Bridge Sentence Exact · The Order of the Two Words Matters · +11 more

Seven short passages in thirty minutes, prose and poetry, true and made up — and four official jobs: find it, understand it, judge it, name the theme.

The Seven Passages and How They Differ · Skimming to Find Where the Answer Lives · Close Reading: Slowing Down on the Sentence That Matters · Finding the Detail the Question Asks For · +10 more

Fifteen minutes, one picture, one story with three parts — plus the four test-day facts worth knowing, starting with never leaving a bubble empty.

What the Picture Prompt Asks You to Do · What to Look At in the Picture First · Deciding Who the Story Is About and What Happens · A Beginning, a Middle and an End · +6 more